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Robert A. Gastaldo

Robert A. Gastaldo

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Earth Science

D-Index
43
Citations
6409
World Ranking
5028
National Ranking
1889

Overview

Robert A. Gastaldo is affiliated with Colby College in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a significant number of publications specifically addressing Paleontology. Subfields of their work include Paleontology, Atmospheric Science, Earth-Surface Processes, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Geophysics.

Gastaldo's work covers a range of topics related to the paleontology and stratigraphy of fossils, geology and paleoclimatology research, geological formations and processes, plant diversity and evolution, paleontology and evolutionary biology, geological and geochemical analysis, and studies on evolution and paleontology.

The scientist has published numerous papers across multiple peer-reviewed journals. Notable recent publications include:

  • The base of the Lystrosaurus Assemblage Zone, Karoo Basin, predates the end-Permian marine extinction (2020) in Nature Communications
  • Paleoenvironmental and paleoclimatic evolution and cyclo- and chrono-stratigraphy of upper Permian-Lower Triassic fluvial-lacustrine deposits in Bogda Mountains, NW China - Implications for diachronous plant evolution across the Permian-Triassic boundary (2021) in Earth-Science Reviews
  • Silurian wildfire proxies and atmospheric oxygen (2022) in Geology
  • A tale of two Tweefonteins: What physical correlation, geochronology, magnetic polarity stratigraphy, and palynology reveal about the end-Permian terrestrial extinction paradigm in South Africa (2021) in Geological Society of America Bulletin
  • Calcic Vertisols in the upper Daptocephalus Assemblage Zone, Balfour Formation, Karoo Basin, South Africa: Implications for Late Permian Climate (2020) in Journal of Sedimentary Research

Frequent coauthors in Gastaldo's work include Johann Neveling, Ian J. Glasspool, William A. DiMichele, Sandra L. Kamo, and J. W. Geissman. These collaborations span multiple projects and contribute to a comprehensive interdisciplinary approach to geological and paleontological studies.

Gastaldo's research has been published in various scientific venues, with several journals appearing repeatedly in their publication record. These include Geology, Journal of Sedimentary Research, Journal of Paleontology, Geological Society of America Bulletin, and Palaios.

In addition to journal articles, Gastaldo has contributed to book publications, including a title published by Springer International Publishing entitled Nature through Time (2020).

Best Publications

  • Taphonomy and paleobiology

    Anna K. Behrensmeyer;Susan M. Kidwell;Robert A. Gastaldo

  • Response Of Late Carboniferous And Early Permian Plant Communities To Climate Change

    William A DiMichele;Hermann W Pfefferkorn;Robert A Gastaldo

  • Evolution and importance of wetlands in earth history

    Stephen F. Greb;William A. DiMichele;Robert A. Gastaldo

  • Out of the Icehouse into the Greenhouse: A Late Paleozoic Analogue for Modern Global Vegetational Change

    Robert A. Gastaldo;William A. DiMichele;H. W. Pfefferkorn

  • Portrait of a Gondwanan ecosystem: A new late Permian fossil locality from KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

    Rose Prevec;Conrad C. Labandeira;Conrad C. Labandeira;Johann Neveling;Robert A. Gastaldo

  • Confirmation of Carboniferous clastic swamp communities

    Robert A. Gastaldo

  • Taphonomic Trends of Macrofloral Assemblages Across the Permian–Triassic Boundary, Karoo Basin, South Africa

    Robert A. Gastaldo;Rose Adendorff;Marion Bamford;Conrad C. Labandeira

  • Is the vertebrate-defined Permian-Triassic boundary in the Karoo Basin, South Africa, the terrestrial expression of the end-Permian marine event?

    Robert A. Gastaldo;Sandra L. Kamo;Johann Neveling;John W. Geissman

  • Taphonomic and sedimentologic characterization of roof-shale floras

    Robert A. Gastaldo;Hermann W. Pfefferkorn;William A. DiMichele

  • Sediment facies, depositional environments, and distribution of phytoclasts in the Recent Mahakam River delta, Kalimantan, Indonesia

    Robert A. Gastaldo;Alain-Yves Huc

  • Implications on the paleoecology of autochthonous lycopods in clastic sedimentary environments of the Early Pennsylvanian of Alabama

    Robert A. Gastaldo

  • Are the most durable shelly taxa also the most common in the marine fossil record

    Anna K. Behrensmeyer;Franz T. Fürsich;Robert A. Gastaldo;Susan M. Kidwell

  • The Relationship Between Continental Landscape Evolution and the Plant-Fossil Record: Long Term Hydrologic Controls on Preservation

    Robert A. Gastaldo;Timothy M. Demko;Timothy M. Demko

  • Origin, characteristics, and provenance of plant macrodetritus in a Holocene crevasse splay, Mobile Delta, Alabama

    Robert A. Gastaldo;Donald P. Douglass;Steven M. McCarroll

  • Regenerative growth in fossil horsetails following burial by alluvium

    Robert A. Gastaldo

  • Seasonal sediment transport and deposition in the Rajang River delta, Sarawak, East Malaysia

    J.R. Staub;H.L. Among;R.A. Gastaldo

  • The Base of the Lystrosaurus Assemblage Zone, Karoo Basin, Predates the end-Permian Marine Extinction

    Robert A. Gastaldo;Sandra L. Kamo;Johann Neveling;John W. Geissman

  • Application of sequence and genetic stratigraphic concepts to Carboniferous coal-bearing strata: an example from the Black Warrior basin, USA

    Robert A. Gastaldo;Timothy M. Demko;Yuejin Liu

  • Criteria to distinguish parautochthonous leaves in tertiary alluvial channel-fills

    Robert A. Gastaldo;David K. Ferguson;Harald Walther;Joachim M. Rabold

  • PLANT PALEOECOLOGY IN DEEP TIME

    William A. DiMichele;Robert A. Gastaldo

  • NO MAJOR STRATIGRAPHIC GAP EXISTS NEAR THE MIDDLE-UPPER PENNSYLVANIAN (DESMOINESIAN-MISSOURIAN) BOUNDARY IN NORTH AMERICA

    Howard J. Falcon-Lang;Philip H. Heckel;William A. Dimichele;Bascombe M. Blake

Frequent Co-Authors

John W. Geissman
John W. Geissman The University of Texas at Dallas
William A. DiMichele
William A. DiMichele Smithsonian Institution
Anna K. Behrensmeyer
Anna K. Behrensmeyer National Museum of Natural History
Cindy V. Looy
Cindy V. Looy University of California, Berkeley
Marion K. Bamford
Marion K. Bamford University of the Witwatersrand
Sandra L. Kamo
Sandra L. Kamo University of Toronto
Mary L. Droser
Mary L. Droser University of California, Riverside
Carlton E. Brett
Carlton E. Brett University of Cincinnati
Cortland F. Eble
Cortland F. Eble University of Kentucky
Richard B. Aronson
Richard B. Aronson Florida Institute of Technology

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